The Dubai police have released further details of the passports used by the suspects in the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas commander who was assassinated in his hotel room in the Gulf emirate last month.

There are now 26 suspects in the murder case, using documents from the UK, Ireland, France, Australia and Germany. Six of the newly identified suspects used British passports, taking the total of British passports thought to have been used in the Dubai murder to twelve. The British government has said that the documents used were fraudulent.